By Mike Lynes, GGBA Executive Director Amidst the excitement of the Oakland Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, we were saddened to hear news that Rich

Sunday December 16th was Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s 72nd annual Christmas Bird Count in Oakland. About 200 volunteers fanned out in a 15-mile circle, from the

This is the second in an occasional series of reviews of Bay Area birding locations. Do you have a favorite site you’d like to share?

By Phila Rogers While others are thrilled with Pine Siskins visiting their feeders, I experience mostly foreboding.  Several years ago, when the siskins were on

By Ilana DeBare GGBA Volunteer Coordinator Noreen Weeden was birding recently at Pier 94, the old San Francisco dump site that we’ve restored as wetlands

By Pamela Clark As in real estate, we know location is everything in birding. I recently attended the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival for the

This post is reprinted from Audublog, the blog of Audubon California. GGBA’  incoming Executive Director Mike Lynes helped draft Audubon California’s comments to the California Fish

By Ilana DeBare NOTE: Check out our more recent post on Holiday Gifts for Birders, 2015! Looking for kids’ gifts? We also have a post

By Ilana DeBare You’d never guess it from the box-office-blockbuster Skyfall, but… James Bond was a birder. No, not the Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan, Sean

Each fall, hundreds of volunteers with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory track hawk migration through the Bay Area. To celebrate fall migration, here’s the second

Each fall, hundreds of volunteers with the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory track hawk migration through the Bay Area. From the top of Hawk Hill in the Marin

By Ilana DeBare Welcome back to the Lake Merritt Tufted Duck! Once again, a Tufted Duck has arrived to winter among the scaup of Lake